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Show amendments on the HoUse , a movement to revive the , V' issue gained headway a possibility of it3 reviv, when the committee t.i, final draft for approvSP H. the rules committee bv I ttr' a rule which would JJS on the floor of the Hou7e House, and Senate approval will be routine. Bullish news comes from the war production front with WPB Chairman Nelson's announcement of industry's "cosmic records" and the first-time-official output figures fig-ures from President Roosevelt. Bad news from the Axis powers comes with his statement that during dur-ing May industry produced nearly 4,000 planes, over 1,500 tanks, j nearly 2,000 artillery and anti-: tank guns and over 50,000 machine-guns. machine-guns. If sub-machine guns were added to the latter figure, the total would exceed 100,000. j Eight directives designed to channel chan-nel the nation's male population, from 18 to 65, into occupations most useful to the war effort have been issued by the War Manpower Commission. Four of these orders specifically charge the U. S. Employment Em-ployment Service with responsibility responsibil-ity for: (1) Maintaining lists of essential essen-tial activities and occupations. (2) Establishing and expediting "placement priorities." (3) Encouraging transfers to essential activities and occupations which will be listed under Directive No. 2. ! (4) Recruiting-and placing essential es-sential agricultural workers. The other four directives charge the WPB, Selective Service, Dept. of Agriculture and "certain government gov-ernment agencies" with specific responsibilities re-sponsibilities pertaining to their normal functions. After 16 weeks of all-day sessions, ses-sions, the House Ways and Means committee has completed its work on the 6 billion dollar 1942 tax bill, which is still 2.7 billion less than the treasury asked for. Some senators sen-ators and a number of Ways and Means members are dissatisfied with the bill, believing a sales tax should have been incorporated to soak up inflationary purchasing power. While it is generally understood that the committee would request a closed rule precluding any by JameS Preston Belief here is that the next few weeks may determine the length and course of. the war. Sobering news from the world battlefronts has caused Washington to gird for the hard, tough road ahead. "We must avoid at all costs," Lt. Gen. McNarey, deputy chief of staff, war department, told congress, . "the error of underestimating the task ahead of us." War plants, large and small, will soon bulge with a crop of new war orders which will pyramid on those already "in the works." In the broader application of the subcontracting subcon-tracting process, the small shop, the high cost producer, will take a more prominent place in the picture. pic-ture. Almost every manufacturer will be drawn into our huge war production pro-duction machine, as the biggest of all war funds 43 billion dollars was passed unanimously by the |